Muncie man gets 39 years in nail-gun torture case

MUNCIE, Ind. – A Muncie man who tortured a woman with a nail gun – and held her and two other people against their will – was sentenced Wednesday to 39 years in prison.

A Delaware Circuit Court 4 jury in September found Robert A. Walton, now 58, guilty of 11 felony charges, including three counts each of criminal confinement and intimidation, and four counts of battery with a deadly weapon.

Testimony indicated Walton and co-defendant Benitez L. McCullum held two women and a man against their will in a northside building on Aug. 11, 2016.

Walton used an air gun to shoot nails into both of a female victim’s legs, her torso and one of her feet.